William Stein wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Jason Grout > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> A long time ago, there was a discussion about the legality of using >> Mathematica with the notebook (providing access via a webserver). Here >> is the relevant section from the license agreement I see with MMA 7: >> >> Note that item 7 now specifies that the prohibited use is allowing >> *others* to access MMA through a webserver. Hence, I think using the >> notebook to access MMA for personal use is now a non-issue. >> >> There was also question about how the examples were inconsistent with >> the license agreement in that the examples indicated that mathematica >> functions could and should be modified, while the license agreement >> forbade it. However, this new license agreement explicitly grants >> permission to modify portions of Mathematica written in MMA code. > > Weird. I'm not a lawyer, but I read this below in exactly the > *opposite* way to the way you interpret it. It says the following is > prohibited: "4. modifying the Software in any manner, except those > portions written in the Mathematica language and included as > examples". My read of that is that the *only* thing you can modify is > the actual examples that are written in the Mathematica language that > are in the documentation (it's an and not an or). Thus modifying any
Reading it again, I agree with you. I think I missed the "and" before. Jason > of the 259540 lines listed here is illegal: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/6.0$ find . -name *.m | > xargs cat|wc -l > 259540 > > To you a tired car analogy, buying Mathematica is like buying a car > where you are allowed to try out the instruction manual, but you're > not allowed to change the spark plugs. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
